Renegade poetics : black aesthetics and formal innovation in African American poetry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shockley, Evie, 1965-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2011]
Series:	Contemporary North American poetry series.
Subjects:	American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism. African American aesthetics. African Americans in literature.

Table of Contents:

Changing the subject: Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad"
Expanding the subject: Sonia Sanchez's Does your house have lions?
Complicating the subject: Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge as African American blues epic
Protest / Poetry: Anne Spencer's Garden of "Raceless" Verse
Black and green: on the nature of Ed Roberson's poetics
Will Alexander's surrealist nature: toward a diasporic black aesthetics coda: black aesthetics at the turn of the twenty-first century.